It's been years since a new Harry Potter book or movie has been released, but that hasn't stopped #PotterHeads from continuing to dig to find out anything and everything possible about the magical story. The Harry Potter world is full of theories, but this latest one has HP fans reeling.

Fans have long theorized that Harry, Snape, and Voldemort were allegories to the Peverell brothers from the "The Tale of the Three Brothers" in Deathly Hallows.

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Voldemort is believed to be the oldest brother who wanted a wand that would beat any other. Voldemort, who actually owned the Elder Wand, met a similar fate as the older brother when he was killed by his thirst for power.

Snape is thought of as the middle brother, who desperately wanted to bring back a girl he hoped to marry before she died. Snape, who was never able to get over Lily Potter' s death, met a similar fate as the middle brother when he ended up giving his own life for those memories.

And Harry closely resembles the youngest brother whose request granted him a cloak of invisibility, which Harry actually owned. Although Death searched for him for years, it was only when he passed on his invisibility cloak to his son, that he finally greeted Death "as an old friend."

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In previous theories, the similarities between the story and the modern wizard world end there, but according to this Tumblr user, there is one crucial similarity missing — the one between Death and Dumbledore.

Harryjxmespotter believes that Death represent Dumbledore, the person behind the deaths of the oldest and middle brother, and responsible for protecting the youngest — he literally gives Harry an invisibility cloak!

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